“Were they 'Gruber-ing,' thinking Americans were dumb enough to believe anything? Or did they truly believe Islamists weren't at fault and that a video was to blame? If so, to blame physical evil on words or art scares me.”

Gutfeld charged that someone was arrested for exercising his right to free speech so that the White House could cover itself politically.

“When people attack us, normally we blame the attackers. But here we blamed art. Maybe architecture was at fault for the World Trade Center attack,” he quipped. “That’s the crime: a moral failing of an administration obsessed with blaming the West."

Gutfeld remarked that the right “got greedy with conspiracy” and said it should have just exposed our leaders’ “Islamophobia-phobia.”

“So now media hacks cackle, thrilled no one in power got nailed, forgetting that a country was misled, and that a filmmaker was jailed. ‘All the President’s Men’ was once the name of a book. But now it describes the media.”

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff of California said that "people have suffered enough" because of President Trump and that a real leader would re-open the part of the government that has been shuttered since December.